Speculation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPECULATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act or instance of speculating
• the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence
• investment in stocks, property, etc. in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss
• The act of speculating.
• Examination by the eye; view.
• Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
• The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
• The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
• Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
• A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
• Power of sight.
• A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
• a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
• continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of speculating; as; assumption of unusual business risk in hopes of obtaining commensurate gain; a transaction involving such speculation

Words related to SPECULATION

speculations16 speculatory18

Words that contain SPECULATION

speculations16 antispeculation19 overspeculation22 overspeculations23 superspeculation22 superspeculations23

How to use SPECULATION in a sentence

• It has sometimes been a matter of curious speculation to me, what share that diminutive flower had in the development of my mind and character.
• As Orde walked home that evening, after a hot day, his mind was full of speculation as to the immediate future.
• For which Reason I shall not enlarge upon them, but proceed to a Point of the same Nature, which may open to us a more uncommon Field of Speculation.
• My Father, whom I mentioned in my first Speculation, and whom I must always name with Honour and Gratitude, has very frequently talked to me upon the Subject of Marriage.
• I am engaged in this Speculation by a Sight which I lately met with at the Opera.
• They had ceased to be theory and speculation with her.
• For a long time Paul Anderson sat staring into the realms of speculation, his lips white with hunger, his cheeks hollow and feverish from the battle he had waged.
• By wild speculation and intemperate curiosity we violate his will and incur dangerous, perhaps fatal, consequences.
• They are looked upon with suspicion and their loyalty to the new order of things is a constant source of speculation, conjecture, and doubt.
• He held them on speculation until he could obtain a third to complete the set.
• It is, moreover, a speculation repugnant to the scientific mind, when its significance is grasped.
• He asked, where did this spirit of speculation commence? It first showed itself in Manchester and Liverpool, where no local notes circulated.
• The probability of the severance of the North and South has been a speculation to which the older of us have long been familiar.
• Will this change after the war? But that, too, is not a subject for speculation here.
• I shall conclude this Speculation with one useful Inference.
• They are like the great capitalists who, occupied with vast projects of speculation, neglect either from carelessness or contempt the small undertakings that lie at their door.
• If Francois smuggled nothing, it must have been for want of funds, for speculation is his hobby, as well as his misfortune, entering into every bone of his body.
• Contact with affairs was an indispensable condition for the full use of his great faculties, in spite of their being less faculties of affairs than of speculation.
• Another question may be asked here by way of speculation.
• This was my first speculation in play-buying! I saw it acted, and thought I could do something with it.
• You proposed to me, as a speculation, to identify the treasure if possible before you purchased the ship.
• The spiritual world is, on the other hand, a constant theme for poetry and speculation.
• She had no answer ready, for he seemed to utter his speculation out of knowledge and not ignorance.
• With you a man can neither earn nor buy his dinner without a speculation.
• It is not true that Law built solely on a speculation concerning the Mississippi.
• It is clear that there have been three main lines, so far, along which human speculation and study have run.
• To see a great speculation pass by without yielding him any return was very painful to him.
• I was coming over here on a little speculation of my own in the photographic line, and being low in pocket and pretty well used to rough it, I was coming in the steerage.

Similar words containing SPECULA without suffix tion

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